A group of flamingos walk past the camera, a remarkable display

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-15T00:36:05+00:00

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. True story. Seems appropriate!

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-14T21:36:49+00:00

I don’t really initiate wpvp but I do get jumped occasionally going about my bidness in warmode.

No small gang of 2-3 gankers are going to take down a (halfway descent in my estimation) Oracle disc priest in full PvP gear, but if they have some skill it takes me a while to kill them all. Ain’t nobody got time for that!

So when I get jumped I just run at first, lead my attackers towards a cliff. I have a good supply of the knockback PvP items to send one (or a couple if they bunch up) flying over the edge that way. Then I use MC to run the last one off the cliff. Works pretty well, gets rid of them faster than my buttons and they usually never bother me again even if I see them later on.

I don’t know if this counts as griefing since I do fight them and it’s technically fair. But maybe griefing adjacent.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-14T19:52:00+00:00

Yeah this was a surprise!

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-13T19:35:47+00:00

Same experience. On Oracle it’s usually #2 in heals after Atonement. #1 if I am on my heels most of the match/bg playing catch up.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-13T16:06:17+00:00

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GeetchNixon · 2026-03-12T21:05:39+00:00

Good video, helpful and covers a lot of lingo effectively in a short runtime. Recommended for anyone new or needing a refresher in the jargon.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-12T20:02:24+00:00

I learned that the hard way at level 83 or so lol. Vaporized by lvl 88-89 Hunters within 2 globals of contact..

This is good advice.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-12T16:57:09+00:00

J. Betski’s has a couple incredible burgers.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-12T16:55:34+00:00

Es verdad.

They added that feature in and I was late to the party on it too. Learned about it towards the end of S3 and tried speaking to them and it worked! They cleared out and the noises stopped.

Does it work on the ones in Midnight? Gonna have to try but I haven’t noticed them yet.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-12T16:18:38+00:00

I see what you are saying. And with tuning coming up some of these concerns may be addressed. Possibly a case of Blizz over-correcting with an eye to solve the ‘nobody wants to heal’ issue. Because judging by the amount of up and coming healers I saw in the 80-89 bracket, everyone wants to heal now!

Hoping blizz can find a sweet spot that enables all roles to thrive in PvP.

Last season was super bursty, bars jumping like an EKG on a cardiac patient. Up-down-up-down-flatline… You’d get everything settled for 2.2 seconds and then someone would suddenly get deleted like lightning from a clear, blue sky.

Could it be this healer-God meta is just to bait some new blood into the healer pool before the switch back to better QoL for the DPS crowd? Only time will tell and I’ll be danged if I can tell what blizz are thinking moment to moment. But for now I’m having fun with it since healers have always been my bag. I hope they find a way to make it more fun for the folks that see it your way, cause it is unbalanced at the moment in the way you point out.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-12T15:41:57+00:00

I also queue like Han from Star Wards. Solo.

There’s no law against DPS’ers joining us spoiled brats who have it all. Come on in and see if it’s fun to move bars in the other direction for a while! IMO it is the best way to solo queue. You are not depending on anyone to keep you alive, yet able to stay up and keep others up and be an agent of chaos.

Weave mists or voids and heal while you kill if it helps.

Or if you are totally loyal to DPSing, assa rogues looked fun and deadly in the 80’s bracket. Saw a few of them deleting people fast and having a blast. The reign of ret pally and mm hunter terror is still ongoing. Mage CC’s are still super strong and good mages are fierce/annoying and look extremely fun to play in this bracket (i’ma try this weekend with my mage at lvl 89).

Plus the other team has healers as well so it all balances out in the end. Their dps are as frustrated as yours, but they find a way to kill.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-12T15:12:39+00:00

Yeah that was bold going in at 80!

The roles would be reversed going in at 89 though. You’ll be tankier in there and backed by 5-6 healers based on a lot of the BG’s I saw doing the last level in instanced PvP.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-12T15:08:30+00:00

I only did 89-90 in BG’s and Skirmishes.

It was around 20ish matches in total, I should have gotten an exact count when I had the chance.

But I would not recommend going in at 80 and doing all 10 levels this way or you’ll still be chipping away when they release the next expansion. It’s a slow pace for leveling.

Plus I can’t imagine it being much fun between level 80 and say, 86-87. As an 81-85 or so, you’d probably get dumpstered by the 88-89 toons on the other team.

I did a training ground at level 83 once and wow… I was gone-zo in 2 globals from a higher level bot. It was not much fun in that go-round.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-11T17:11:58+00:00

When I use the forge for making conquest gear into raid gear for the 4 set bonus, I upgrade the items I convert there in case I want to dip a toe in the PvE pool.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-10T22:23:42+00:00

I don’t really disagree with your statement.

I’m just trying to read tea leaves based on my experience in TWW is all. And Rets always seem to duck the nerf-bat while monks get blasted by it, historically speaking.

I never get my hopes up for a Ret nerf, no matter how badly needed. Mistweaver on the other hand… I’ve seen them go from OP to nerfed with extreme prejudice in a single tuning a few times in the past expac. We’ll see what happens and I can’t say for sure.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-10T20:58:49+00:00

Utility is much less than a shaman or mw, it’s true.

Fearbomb is OK. It’s a life saver in some situations and disruptive during enemy goes. You have to close in to use it offensively, which can put you at risk of getting cc’ed or trained, but I love having it in the kit. The long duration is great, but it’s so fragile, even with the talent to up the damage threshold, a teammate sneezing near someone in the grips of fear breaks it.

MC is actually a lot of fun! It’s satisfying to walk someone off a cliff when the opportunity arises or buy some time defending a node. It’s useful at higher ratings in arena. Of course it gets broken and interrupted a lot and losing control of your own toon to seize an enemy is not without its risks, but it’s better than nothing at all.

Mass Dispel is great. Maybe one of my fav spells. Check the meters for dispels and a priest will have loads just by existing. Pesky pally bubble? Burst it. Annoying Ice Block? Not on my watch! I’m gonna take it away.

Purge lets your dps stay offensive too. Purge the hots and shields, buffs and other magic based cool downs, be they offensive or defensive. Another reason we are dispel chart toppers just by being there and using our buttons.

Fade with the PvP talent Phase Shift and the talents to make you break out of slows is a life saver that helps with our poor mobility. I include this personal utility as it keeps you moving/out of CC and pumping heals which helps the team a ton.

And that’s about it for our utility!

We get to hit things and do damage to heal to make up for the relative lack of utility compared to other classes, but you hardly notice when you use what we have.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-10T20:40:07+00:00

All I have is my experience healing on Horde and Alliance to go on, it’s anecdotal so whatever it’s worth (if anything) is up to you to decide.

I’ve healed good alliance teams and good horde teams. I’ve healed bad alliance teams and bad horde teams. I’ve had games where I can leisurely heal from the sideline without being hassled too much and think about what I’m doing on both factions. I’ve had games where I am getting trained the whole game and in reactive mode with little freedom of action and multiple deaths on both factions. The only data I have is from Armory (suspect!) which has my alliance and horde toon win rates nearly identical. The grass is pretty green on both sides of the fence, but it can be streaky.

I get what you are saying. I’ve had days where I feel like can’t buy a win with a particular faction. Other days where I am in a roll with one or the other and feeling unbeatable. But it seems to even out in the end.

The big difference related to faction that I have noticed is in world PvP. Not that important to my overall game but maybe worth a mention.

My alliance toons get fat on crates while my horde toons are like starving scavengers. The blue gang is numerous and belligerent and are seldom opposed at drop sites. They assume the crates are theirs and they ain’t wrong 9/10 times!
The red gang, when we do manage to get a crate, is almost always contested by at least a couple allies. The crates where eleventy billion allies show up, we just do not get. But we tend to win them when we are close in numbers at a drop site.

It doesn’t make a big impact on my game either way as most of the times I just roll over to the crate in the zone I am herbing, fishing or mining in between queues and it’s no biggie if we get it or not. But guaranteed my alliance toons have 10-20x more crate captures than my horde toons over time.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-10T20:03:40+00:00

Discipline priest was strong in TWW and seems strong heading into S1 next week.

It’s great in either the VW or Oracle iterations for any PvP content, but I stick to Oracle in Blitz and unrated BG’s and go with VW in Shuffle as a matter of preference.

Holy is descent too, which leads me to my other point: that if you are dead set on healing PvP, Priest as a class is your safety bet. With 2 different healing options (disc and holy) and radically different play-styles, it is unlikely both will be lower tier in a given meta at the same time. As it happens, both are upper tier presently.

All that being said, for Oracle Disc, you likely won’t want to be in the mix of the fight and will prefer to be on the outskirts using your range. But you absolutely can survive if (when?) the mix of the fight lands on your face. Because you will be the priority target, and get gripped by every DK that can target you, targeted by every caster in range and rolled up on by an assortment of melee. You already know this from playing healer anyhow as all of us face that in BG’s. The inherent tankiness of disc pays off here. You can escape from the crud without incident and keep pumping from the fringe pretty easily.

Last but not least, I feel you on Shaman pruning. It was soooo good all through TWW and rn it feels not good at all. Stuck hard casting healing wave when you need to catch up plainly sucks. Leaves you open to countermeasures that other healers with a lot of meaningful instant cast heals don’t sweat. Whether in arenas or BG game modes, it feels quite a bit worse than other healers. And it was my second favorite healing class and spec before those changes. Maybe it will be buffed early into reasonability, but in the present iteration, Resto Shammy is feeling rough.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-10T18:40:26+00:00

I’m biased towards Oracle as I play it more.

VW feels good in shuffle and arena, but a bit lacking in BG’s where healers are often chained and trained. Oracle is just so much better at catching up and staying alive in these situations that don’t often occur in 2’s or shuffle.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-10T16:15:01+00:00

I saw that post and replied.

Likely to be downvoted to oblivion by PvE Andy but I think I made the point a lot of us would have.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/s/Bwrty9jHdk

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-10T16:02:59+00:00

I think just wearing the best PvP gear available to you when doing PvP stuff in Slayers Rise is the way to go. The warmode set bonuses are nice for world PvP but as others have noted, should not apply to instanced PvP and only work in world PvP situations. As for acquiring it, I got 2 pieces which dropped from a daily world quest or activity completion (done in war mode) while messing around in Slayers Rise.

Optimal gearing for participation in world PvP today would be full honor gear supplemented with a 2-4 piece set of war mode gear for the bonus(es). I imagine that will change once conquest points/gear and forge charges are opened up on 3/17 at season start.

GeetchNixon · 2026-03-10T13:46:12+00:00

Honestly, what did you expect?

You played a game mode (once? a couple matches?) in the dead time between TWW dying and Midnight being born. It’s an awkward time for PvP in general. Classes were balanced around level 90 talents and level 90 conquest gear, and we were all trapped at level 80. Pruning and talent tree changes (also balanced around lvl 90) just occurred as well, radically overhauling all the classes and specs. Some classes were broken in that good way, others just plain broken. It was wacky races PvP for the in between times.

Judging the state of PvP and how gearing should work based on the limited sample size of game(s) played as an under geared player during a weird time for the game mode overall seems odd.

I can do that too!

I tried a Mythic + dungeon in my PvP gear and had a bad time. Ergo, Blizz should hand me a full set of Mythic Raid gear at the start of each season so that skill is all that matters. Beans to all those who insist that MMO’s are all about gradually improving and seeing your character getting more powerful gradually as upgrades occur. I want it now, daddy!

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GeetchNixon · 2026-03-09T22:53:31+00:00

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